Scepticism and irreligion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / / edited by Richard H. Popkin and Arjo Vanderjagt.

• Superior document: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume 37
• Author: Conference on Scepticism and Irreligion in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
• TeilnehmendeR: Popkin, Richard H. 1923-2005,; Vanderjagt, Arie Johan,; Conference on Scepticism and Irreligion in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1990 : Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences and the Humanities)
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : E.J. Brill,, 1993.; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 1993
• Language: English; French; German
• Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; Volume 37.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (383 pages).
• Notes: Includes index.

This volume deals with scepticism and irreligion in the 17th and 18th century. The various contributions seek to clarify and to understand the challenges made then to both the framework of thinking about God and religion and the intellectual systems that had supported religious thinking. Ample attention is given to early modern interpretations of ancient Pyrrhonism and also to biblical criticism. Contributors include: Susanna Åkerman, Silvia Berti, Constance Blackwell, Olivier Bloch, Harry M. Bracken, James E. Force, Alan Gabbey, Sarah Hutton, David S. Katz, Alan Charles Kors, Lothar Kreimendahl, Sylvia Murr, Ezequiel de Olaso, Richard Popkin, Theo Verbeek, Ernestine van der Wall, Richard A. Watson, and Ruth Whelan.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Richard H. Popkin and Arjo Vanderjagt -- Introduction: Scepticism and irreligion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Richard H. Popkin -- Gassendi's scepticism as a religious attitude / Sylvia Murr -- From \'learned ignorance\' to scepticism: Descartes and Calvinist orthodoxy / Theo Verbeek -- Descartes'scepticism: logic vs. biography / Richard A. Watson -- Hobbes: religion and ideology. Notes on the political utilization of religion / Ezequiel de Olaso -- \'A disease incurable\': scepticism and the Cambridge Platonists / Alan Gabbey -- The answer to scepticism of Queen Christina's Academy (1656) / Susanna Åkerman -- Science, philosophy, and atheism: Edward Stillingfleet's defence of religion / Sarah Hutton -- Orthodoxy and scepticism in the early Dutch Enlightenment / Ernestine van der Wall -- Isaac Vossius and the English biblical critics 1650-1689 / David S. Katz -- Skepticism and the problem of atheism in early-modern France / Alan Charles Kors -- Scepticism and the Traité des trois imposteurs / Silvia Berti -- The wisdom of Simonides: Bayle and La Mothe Le Vayer / Ruth Whelan -- Bayle's attack on natural theology: the case of Christian Pyrrhonism / Harry M. Bracken -- Das Theodizeeproblem und Bayles fideistischer Lösungsversuch / Lothar Kreimendahl -- Biblical interpretation, Newton and English Deism / James E. Force -- Scepticisme et religion dans la Reponse a un theologien du medecin Gaultier et sa posterite clandestine / Olivier Bloch -- Diogenes Laertius's \'Life of Pyrrho\' and the interpretation of ancient scepticism in the history of Philosophy-Stanley through Brucker to Tennemann / Constance Blackwell -- Index of names / Richard H. Popkin and Arjo Vanderjagt.